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Watch a film of a typical school visit to Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

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Watch a film of a typical school visit to Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

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A School Visit at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

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A guide to using the Stone Age to Iron Age Handling boxes

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How to use the Wonders of the Peak Timeline

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How to use the Wonders of the Peak Timeline

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Why not explore Buxton Museum and Art Gallery online!

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Buxton Museum and Art Gallery virtual visits - Derbyshire County Council

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Why not explore Buxton Museum and Art Gallery online! You can visit parts of our museum from the comfort of your own computer.

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Buxton Museum and Art Gallery proudly introduces Wonders of the Peak. Visit this FREE web app from any device to discover museum collections and stories throughout the Peak District and Derbyshire.

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Pretend to be a Stone Age Hunter on the Slopes

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Pretend to be a Stone Age Hunter on the Slopes

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For most of the stone age the only way people could find food was to gather wild plants and hunt animals. The natural springs in Buxton would have attracted animals such as deer – which would have attracted stone age hunters.

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Prehistoric Buxton: At the top of The Slopes

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Edited by Joe Perry ( Buxton Museum and Art Gallery) | Added on You should have stopped somewhere near the weather station. Ask your group to look at the town and landscape around them. Discuss what you can see. What do they think it looked like more than 4,000 years ago?

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Liff’s Low Night Charm By Gordon MacLellan

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Liff’s Low Night Charm By Gordon MacLellan

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Background information around this period of time written by museum curators.

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Stone Age to Iron Age Supporting Document

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As one of the "Collection of the Artists" (CotA) team, my role was to write about aspects of the collection, especially looking at the connection between artefacts and places and that sense of "belonging" and "home". Fin Cop inspired several of the artists in different ways. Here is my story about the last day of Skeleton 9 found during the excavations on site
CotA was an Arts Council funded project during the bigger "Collections in the Landscape" project to bring together a team of artists who were asked to respond to different aspects of the Collection in their different styles of work
TWISTED
At the end of a day foraging through the hazel brakes of Wyedale, and Shacklow Wood, Twisted, Nimble and Sometimes were slowly heading back up the winding track towards the Copp and home on the hilltop. It had been a good day and they had baskets full of nuts and mushrooms and bramble berries. It had been a long day too and the trio were quiet as they trudged wearily up the steep slopes.

Nimble Fingers - usually just Nimble - was the youngest of the three. Her trademark digits were still for once. "Nimble", her Mother would proudly say, "she can knot a spider's web out of grass". Her brother's full name was Cat In A Tree but he was mostly just called Sometimes which was his usual response to any request for help or demand on his time. Sometimes was younger than Nimble but he would soon be taller than his sister, stretching taller with every moon.

And Twisted? he was the oldest of the friends, old enough to be out with the warriors and hunters if it wasn't for...He had fallen when he was younger than Nimble and his collar-bone had not mended straight so now there was not enough strength in his shoulder to throw a spear or pull a bow or swing a stone hammer or a cleaving axe. There was something with his feet, too. They were always a bit stiff. He walked a bit awkwardly, didn't run too well. But because he could not roam far from the Copp, Twisted knew the steep flanks of their hill and the woods of the valley floor better than anyone. He could not cover distance but he had soaked their immediate world into his stunted bones and he knew all the best places. The best places for toadstools and honey, for crayfish under stones and salmon jumping, for the brakes where the deer always slowed to take the sweet catkins from that one extra-special hazel. More, he knew the hidden paths, the brockenpaths that twisted like his name under briars and thorns, paths made by badgers and boggarts, the secret people of the hills.

And Twisted was Twisted. It wasn't his real name, not the name they called him in the dark hidden cave under the hill that held the bones of their people and the flints and cherts of their ancient skills, but it was the only name that anyone ever used for him.

So they clambered, the three friends. The younger ones could easily have outpaced their friend but they held back and stayed together. There was no rush. The village was relaxed just now. The hunters had dressed themselves into warriors and gone to help their friends, joining with kin from Burr Tor and following rumour of trouble with raiders following the rivers up from the lowlands. At first everyone was tense, expecting trouble, but after a couple of days and no warning smoke on the beacon hills, people had relaxed and there was a sense of everyone taking it a bit easy. The weather was warm, a late summer burst of heat before the autumn started to wrap the world in. There was food in the store-houses, nuts roasting in fires and stored in pots, berries dried and beaten with smoked meat and goose fat into solid cakes for those cold winter nights

The quiet was the first warning. This close to the hilltop there should have been voices. There should be laughter dropping like birdsong over the edge of the hill. But nothing. Not even the birds themselves. The silence slowed the friends and they faltered on the ledge before the last climb. Twisted was sure that if he had been the wolf of his dreams his hackles would have been bristling. The children stared, eyes owl-wide and frightened, but these were warrior children, they did not cry. They did not falter.

"Stay here," said Twisted, "stay close against the rock and if I have not come back when the shadow of this stick, reaches here," He spiked a twig into sunlight on the edge of the track, marking shadow points with stones, "Go back down the hill. Use the brockenpaths not the people ones and go to Hob's House. You can stay safe in his cave tonight. Don't light a fire or make a sound. Hob will keep you safe and warm. If I or one of the cousins don't come and find you by the dawn, Hob will see you safe to the river and over the ford by the Warren Stone. Then go to our family in The Old Woman's House and all of you should go out by Divvil's Dale and Deep Dale and head for the Darkwater Dale. But if I can, I'll come for you before the shadow moves."

They hugged. Strongly, fiercely, silently

The silhouette was the second warning. As Twisted crept cautiously up the last slopes to the hilltop, the shapes ahead of him were wrong. The sharp edges of the whitestone wall on the bank had slumped, their neat dramatic profile sagged. Twisted was so shocked that he stepped out of the shelter of the trees and onto the edge of the cleared space in front of the wall. The wall had collapsed, a tumbled, toppled mass of rocks half filling the ditch. There was a smell of smoke but no trails rising into the still evening air, rather the bitter scent of fires doused fast. And still there was silence. Twisted stared.

The last warning was the blood. Blood over the toppled stones, blood seeping from under the stones. As Twisted crouched down to reach out, to touch the marked stones, two figures rose from the shelter of the fallen wall and reached out in turn for him.

Twisted couldn't run, those stiff bones in his feet didn't give him speed, but they did turn his feet into solid clubs and he kicked. Hard. There were groans and he turned, a hobbling canter, along the hilltop, away from the path where he had left Nimble and Sometimes. He didn't get far.

As they walked him back to the hilltop, Twisted could see the ruin of their wall, built and maintained with so much care and so much pride. It hadn't helped. It hadn't stopped them. There were only a few warriors around. He didn't recognise them and he didn't see anyone else. The cattle already driven off? The small half-wild sheep too? Have they taken everyone, he thought? Taken for slaves? Moved on already? There was still a bit of wall, a last stretch, still standing by one of the gateways where a warrior with trophy feathers in her hair was standing.

"We thought we might have missed a few," she said, as they stood him on the wall of the ditch. Her smile was the cold blade of winter ice. "We kept a space for you".
PLACE NAME REFERENCES
Hob's House: cave in the hillside below Fin Cop

Warren Stone: a rock that was once a giant and lies in the River Wye below Fin Cop

Old Woman's House Cave: a rock shelter in Taddington Dale

Demon Dale and Deep Dale both hold old settlements and cave dwellings

Burr Tor, hill fort in the Peak District

Darkwater Dale: later becomes Dovedale

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As one of the "Collection of the Artists" (CotA) team, my role was to write about aspects of the collection, especially looking at the connection between artefacts and places and that sense of "belonging" and "home". Fin Cop inspired several of the artists in different ways.

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How To Make Prehistoric Pottery | Stone Age Technology

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How To Make Prehistoric Pottery | Stone Age Technology

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How To Make Prehistoric Pottery | Stone Age Technology

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The smell of smoke gets stronger as you follow the path alongside the river. You come to a patch of burning ground - a fire has been started deliberately. People used fires to clear areas of woodland for new growth, attracting grazing animals such as deer. These animals were important – providing food and materials for making clothing and tools.

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How did the Peak District landscape form? This animation explores the answer through a 360 million year journey.

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Travel back 8,000 years. You are standing on a raised area by the river in a wet, boggy valley. Much of the landscape is covered by woodland, but this spot is more open with some scattered trees. Steam rises from thermal springs in the east. The air is filled with the sounds of buzzing https://www.wondersofthepeak.org.uk/chapters/a-wet-boggy-valley-2/

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Death and blood

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Listen to Gordon MacLellan | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.

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Use the wonderful poems written by Gordon Maclellan to start the stories around the campfire.

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Activities for learning outdoors inspired by Wolf Brother

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The skeletons of four people were discovered in the barrow on Grin Low.
Prehistoric Buxton: View of Grin Low (wondersofthepeak.org.uk)

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Prehistoric Buxton: At the top of The Slopes

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Prehistoric Buxton: At the top of The Slopes

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The natural springs in Buxton would have attracted animals such as deer – which would have attracted stone age hunters.

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Prehistoric Buxton: At the top of The Slopes

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Edited by Joe Perry ( Buxton Museum and Art Gallery) | Added on You should have stopped somewhere near the weather station. Ask your group to look at the town and landscape around them. Discuss what you can see. What do they think it looked like more than 4,000 years ago?

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How a bronze axe is cast using Bronze Age technologies.

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How a bronze axe is cast using Bronze Age technologies.

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www.museumoflondon.org.uk/prehistory-resources How did people make tools from metal during the Bronze Age? This short video, introduced by children, demonstrates how a bronze axe is cast using Bronze Age technologies.

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Get up close to a real piece of prehistory!

With a mouse and keyboard: Click on this object and drag your mouse to spin it up and down or left to right, or use your mouse wheel. To zoom in, click once on the object, and move your mouse to move the view. To zoom out again, drag your mouse off the object.

On a touchscreen: Drag your finger up and down or left and right on the object to spin it. To zoom in, touch the arrow button in the top left corner to enter full screen mode, then tap twice on the object very quickly. Drag your finger to move the view. To zoom out again, touch above or below the object.

What is it?

Bronze is made by mixing copper and tin. First the copper and tin are extracted from rocks by heating them to high temperatures. This process is called smelting.

When the copper and tin have been mixed, the liquid bronze is poured into a mould to create the axehead. Look closely at the sides of the axehead and you will see the casting seams. These can be seen if a mould is made from two pieces joined together.

You can find out how an axehead may have been cast in our Bronze Age video on YouTube.

What do you think?

What do you think this axehead was used for?

Why do you think this axehead is hollow?

Have you ever made anything using a mould?

Further info

Object ID number: A5120

If you use this image, please credit it as follows:
Digital image copyright Museum of London

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3D Bronze Age axehead | Museum of London

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Get up close to a real piece of prehistory! With a mouse and keyboard: Click on this object and drag your mouse to spin it up and down or left to right, or use your mouse wheel. To zoom in, click once on the object, and move your mouse to move the view.

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An archaeologist visits Butser Ancient Farm to make a bronze age axe head exactly the way Bronze Age man would have done so. Starting with copper and tin we see how an axe is made by heating the metal to 1000 degrees Centigrade and turning it into a red-hot liquid before cooling it in water. To finish the process the blade is fitted into a wooden handle. Flint and Bronze axes are then compared in order to explore the impact metal making had on people in Britain.

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BBC Two - Ancient Voices, Bronze Age - Make metal

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An archaeologist visits Butser Ancient Farm to make a bronze age axe head exactly the way Bronze Age man would have done so. Starting with copper and tin we see how an axe is made by heating the metal to 1000 degrees Centigrade and turning it into a red-hot liquid before cooling it in water.

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KS2 Prehistory – Stone Age flint knapping

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Brilliant activity for identifying different uses of flints!

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Brilliant activity for identifying different uses of flints!

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Among the many skeletons revealed, that of a teenager, is thought to be a male although it is hard to tell due to the young age of the skeleton.
Download a school pack here...
https://www.archaeologicalresearchservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Schools-Pack.zip

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Edited by darcyellenr | Added on The green hilltop of Fin Cop seems peaceful and unthreatening to a modern spectator, but beneath the ground is a mass grave dating back to the Iron Age. This raised many questions when the fort was uncovered and showed evidence that parts of it had been built quickly in response to a threat to the settlement.

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Let’s find out more about how prehistoric pots were made!

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Let’s find out more about how prehistoric pots were made!

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Type the name of a place or an address in the box and press 'Enter' to see if a Wonder is nearby.

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Type the name of a place or an address in the box below and press ‘Enter’ to see if a Wonder is nearby.

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Wolf Brother -story writing inspiration 

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Wolf Brother -story writing inspiration 

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Welcome to the home of Chronicles of Ancient Darkness!

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Home of Michelle Paver's bestselling CHRONICLES OF ANCIENT DARKNESS series

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Brilliant bitesized visual of the different periods from Stone Age to Iron Age

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Brilliant bitesized visual of the different periods from Stone Age to Iron Age

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z82hsbk

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Timeline / 3D images

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Support the Museum of London

We can't say how long these uncertain times will continue, but your support is vital in preserving the history of London for many more generations to come. Join our community of supporters today.

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Resources for schools learning | Museum of London

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Historic England - detailed interactive timeline with some very specific information about the development of tools / farming.

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Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) were early humans who lived in Europe from about 400,000 years ago until 30,000 years ago. Neanderthals would have looked different from our own species of humans, but maybe not very different! Their bones show they were short and strong, meaning they were well adapted to living during the ice age, when it was much colder than it is today.

The last Neanderthals lived in Europe at the same time as our own species (Homo sapiens).

Although they eventually died out, genetic evidence shows that we all have some Neanderthals amongst our ancestors.

Neanderthals were intelligent humans, but different from our own species.

They were capable of communicating, probably undertook ritual activities and may have produced art.

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Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) were early humans who lived in Europe from about 400,000 years ago until 30,000 years ago. Neanderthals would have looked different from our own species of humans, but maybe not very different! Their bones show they were short and strong, meaning they were well adapted to living during the ice age, when it was much colder than it is today.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAg0NRTRzEg

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Stone Age Boy Read  by Memma The Cave Woman

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Get up close to a real piece of prehistory!

Wait: If the object hasn't appeared, it may be because it's loading

Rotate: Swipe with your finger, or click and drag with a mouse

Zoom: Pinch your fingers in or out, or use your mouse wheel

Read: Touch or click on the labels for more information

What is it?

This is a loomweight. Loomweights were used to hold lengths of wool or plant fibres taut to help weave them to make fabric.

It was discovered as part of the Havering Hoard, the largest Bronze Age hoard ever discovered in London, found in 2018.

Ideas for teachers

Here are some questions you might want to ask your students about this object:

What words would you use to describe it?

How might it feel if you touched it?

Who might have owned it?

How might it have been used?

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3D Bronze Age loomweight from the Havering Hoard | Museum of London

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Get up close to a real piece of prehistory! Wait: If the object hasn't appeared, it may be because it's loading Rotate: Swipe with your finger, or click and drag with a mouse Zoom: Pinch your fingers in or out, or use your mouse wheel Read: Touch or click on the labels for more information This is a loomweight.

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'The Wild Way Home echoes Skellig and Stig of the Dump, with a bold, readable charm entirely its own ... Full of peril, sadness and wild joy, it's a timeslip adventure with a difference.'

'I can honestly say, in my six years of teaching so far, I have never read a book to my class that has captivated them so much!'

Year 4 teacher, Ravenscote Junior School

Waterstones Children's Book of the Month, July 2020

Shortlisted for the Joan Aiken Future Classics Prize

Shortlisted for the Warwickshire Junior Book Award,2021

Longlisted for the Branford Boase Award, 2021

Longlisted for the Spark Book Award, 2021

LoveReading4Kids Debut of the Month, July 2020

Toppsta Best Book of the Month, July 2020

LoveReading4Schools Book of the Month, July 2020

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What follows is a wild, big-hearted adventure as Charlie and the Stone Age boy set out together to find what they have lost - their courage, their hope, their family and their way home.

Fans of Piers Torday, Geraldine McCaughrean and Stig of the Dump will love this wild, wise and heartfelt debut adventure.

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Sophie Kirtley, The Wild Way Home, Stone Age Adventure Book

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'The Wild Way Home echoes Skellig and Stig of the Dump, with a bold, readable charm entirely its own ... Full of peril, sadness and wild joy, it's a timeslip adventure with a difference.' 'I can honestly say, in my six years of teaching so far, I have never read a book to my class that has captivated them so much!'

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Video showing the use of a weaving sword on an upright loom with weights. Start at 2:00.

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Video showing the use of a weaving sword on an upright loom with weights. Start at 2:00.

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Lismore Fields, in Buxton, provides evidence for one of the earliest communities in the Peak District.
Object Results (wondersofthepeak.org.uk)

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What are loom weights and how were they used?

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Put on your hat and find your trowel (even in the comfort of your own armchair). Let's go dig.

Explore our collections and make your own museum.

Where will you dig?

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Our “Wonders” are stories and facts collated by our staff and volunteers, all linked to locations out in the landscape of the Peak District and Derbyshire.

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To search through the Wonders, type a word or phrase into the box below then press Enter.

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Learn more about the tools needed to make clothes

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Teaching History with 100 Objects - Tools for making clothes in Iron Age Britain

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Iron Age people took great care of their appearance, which enhanced an individual's status. Tools for making cloth are often found on Iron Age settlements, suggesting each community made their own clothes of wool or linen, but Iron Age cloth was also traded with the Mediterranean world, where it was highly prized.

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Prehistoric Buxton - Recreate a Neolithic House

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Prehistoric Buxton - Recreate a Neolithic House

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You can experience Prehistoric Buxton: Recreate a Neolithic House out in the Peak District or Derbyshire by visiting the location marked on the map, or find it with the help of the Pocket Wonders app.

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Prehistoric Buxton: Recreate a Neolithic House

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Edited by Joe Perry ( Buxton Museum and Art Gallery) | Added on You should have reached an area of grass near the River Wye. Read out loud to your group: At the very end of the stone age (in the Neolithic or 'new stone age') people started to settle in one place for longer.

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Spindle whorls are used to weigh down thread as it is spun. See how in this clip...

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Spindle whorls are used to weigh down thread as it is spun. See how in this clip...